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Sport Tech Hub

Introduction

‘A dedicated physical activity and sport innovation hub supporting early-stage tech start-ups that can help create happier, healthier and more active populations’. Sport Tech Hub is the UK’s first facility dedicated to start-ups driving innovation in the physical activity and sport sector. Backed by London Sport, Sport Tech Hub will offer support to start-ups focused on improving wellbeing through technology designed to increase levels of participation in physical activity and sport. Based at House of Sport, London’s new collaborative co-working space for the sport sector, start-ups involved in Sport Tech Hub will have access to a bespoke 24-week incubation providing commercial and creative guidance, as well as access to market through tailored introductions to other House of Sport residents including London Sport, Invictus Games Foundation, Street League and Rugby Football League. Sport Tech Hub’s incubation programme is supported by partners and mentors, including FieldFisher, London & Partners, Crowdcube, Sport Industry Group and Sponge Marketing. Alex Zurita, Specialist Advisor – Technology for Participation, London Sport said: “SportTech is one of the most exciting frontiers for physical activity and sport, and we are excited to be able to offer tech start-ups in this space the opportunity to thrive at the heart of London’s sport sector. “As so many other sectors have demonstrated, technology-led innovation offers a real opportunity to build stronger relationships with people and influence their behaviours. If that potential can be harnessed to drive people towards being more physically active, the positive impact on people’s physical and mental wellbeing could be transformative for London.”


Who’s Behind It?

Sport Tech Hub is backed by London Sport, the strategic body aiming to make London the

most physically active city in the world.

Support for Sport Tech Hub comes from a range of partners, including


Partners

Associate Partner

Launch Partners

Media Partner

Leading crowd funder for investment organisation - Crowdcube makes investing accessible, affordable and rewarding by enabling everyday investors to invest alongside professionals and venture capital firms in startups, early and growth stage businesses.

European law firm with market leading practices in many of the world's most dynamic sectors. An exciting, forward-thinking organisation with a particular focus on technology, finance & financial services, energy & natural resources, life sciences and media.

Official promotional company for London. London and Partners build London’s international reputation and attract investment, which creates jobs and growth for the city.

RLC Ventures, focusing mainly on investing in seed stage businesses with incredible ideas and immense potential

A PR, Marketing and Social Media agency specialising in sport, travel, lifestyle and brand partnerships.

Sport Industry Group promotes business across the sport sector through a series of world-class events, including the BT Sport Industry Awards; leading editorial content via the Sport Industry Daily; and unparalleled networking opportunities, attended by senior, influential figures from across the British and international sporting landscape.


Members


Cohort 1

Physical inactivity amongst children is one of the world's biggest issues. We create non-competitive, participatory sporting challenges for children both in and outside of school.

Aktivkidz

Simon Smallbone [email protected]

+352621 255485

aktivkidz.org @simonsmallbone

#aktivkidz

“We want to take what we do offline, online and embrace technology. We feel the Sport Tech Hub gives us the greatest chance of success in creating our digital solution to help in the battle against children's inactivity.” Simon Smallbone, Founder, Aktivkidz

BATFAST is a UK based company that manufactures and operates Automated Sports Simulators for training, engagement and entertainment. We aim to make it easier for people to play sports by providing solutions to the key inhibitors for the sports; Time Commitment, Cost, Skill. BATFAST encourages more people to take up sport for personal development.

BATFAST

Runish Gudhka

[email protected] 07538 081854

batfast.com

@batfastCC #BreakingBoundaries

“Our main objective is to increase cricket participation globally as well as to revolutionise the sport and make it more fun and engaging than it already is.” Runish Gudhka, Co-Founder, BATFAST

FitSwarm provides a white-label capability for organisations to deliver live, 2-way streaming of fitness, health and wellbeing sessions over the internet. 2-way sessions mean that trainers can see and hear participants in real-time, whilst participants can see and hear the trainer in real-time, allowing a fully engaged session to take place across continents. FitSwarm not only enables organisations to provide a convenience channel to existing members, but also a means of connecting with new members and inactive populations.

FitSwarm

Tony Beim [email protected]

07812 346942

fitswarm.com @FitSwarm

#wearefitswam

“We’ve joined the Sport Tech Hub to make contacts within the leisure sector and identify synergies with other organisations.” Tony Beim, Founder, FitSwarm


Flex delivers live video HIIT classes to be taken at home. Participants all tune in wearing Bluetooth heart rate monitors resulting in a real-time "score" leaderboard visible throughout. Available on smart TV boxes and native mobile apps with full casting support, it's as easy to view on your large television screen as Netflix. Instructors call out viewers by name throughout. This is backed by a digital community with competitions, rewards, challenges and sharing and supporting of personal journeys.

Flex

Elliott Perry


sweatflex.com

@flexsweat #sweatflex

“Flex has joined London Sport's Sport Tech Hub to take advantage of its wealth of industry connections. We'd like to establish relationships with all the main movers and shakers in London's fitness ecosystem.” Elliott Perry, CEO, Flex

Rabble is a fitness company on a mission to make exercise fun. We do this by turning exercise into games, we play everything from British Bulldogs to Capture the Flag, Dodgeball and more. Our games are designed so that anyone can join in, to be super fun, social and a workout without realising it.

Rabble

Charlotte Roach [email protected]

07521 788833

joinrabble.com @joinrabble

#gamechangingfitness

“Rabble has joined the programme to get more people LOVING their workout and thus sticking at their workout for longer.” Charlotte Roach, Founder, Rabble

There's no easier way to get your activity online! Makesweat is a booking and membership platform for sports clubs and activity & wellness providers; we're optimised for organisations that have found it too complex or expensive to get online in the past or are just starting out and need a cash-free operation. Makesweat is easy to use and has no signup cost, and for amateur clubs is exactly the same price as Paypal. As well as the entire payment & booking flow, including complex uses such as waitlist management, Makesweat features social engagement elements such as automated nudge emails, Kudos, leaderboards, embedding in club websites & plastic printed membership cards.

Makesweat

Nick Bailey [email protected]

07946 526135

makesweat.com @makesweat_com

#makesweat

“Excited to be part of a likeminded and well-connected sports, technology and commercial community.” Nick Bailey, Founder, Makesweat


Racefully is a connected social fitness platform that enables businesses, charities and other organisations to engage with their audience, build active communities, and get everyone exercising together virtually, no matter where they are in the world.

Racefully

Chris Pointon [email protected]

07973 340293

raceful.ly @Racefully

#findyourtribe

“Sport and fitness isn’t one-size-fits-all. We’re delighted to be in an environment where we can build partnerships, connections, create opportunities, help wherever called upon, and learn as much as possible.” Chris Pointon, Co-Founder, Racefully

Sport Heroes Group was established in 2014 and is passionate about motivating and inspiring people to be more active. We are a team of 45 people based in France, Australia, New Zealand and the UK and are rapidly becoming a major force in the digital sports media. The UK business was launched in 2015 and is successfully delivering inspiring content and connected experiences to more than 100,000 members.

Sport Heroes

Quentin Auberger [email protected]

07933 036158

uk.runningheroes.com @SportHeroes

@runningheroesuk

“We are passionate about using our proprietary, connected, technology to help inspire, motivate and reward people. Working with companies within the Sport Tech Hub we hope to grow our B2B and B2C platforms and help London Sport reach its target of 1,000,000 million more active Londoners by 2020.” Quentin Auberger, UK Country Director, Sport Heroes

Return2Play is an SME whose innovative approach to helping grassroots sports deliver a gold standard of care to players has been recognised by bodies such as the Sports Technology Awards and EIT Digital. The platform offers concussion management and multi-injury reporting tool for schools; clubs and governing bodies. Return2Play allows for efficient reporting of injuries to a player to each organisation he or she represents.

Return2Play

Andrew Marshall [email protected]

02037 731045

return2play.org.uk @return2play

#playerwelfare

“Joining the Sport Tech Hub is a natural progression to help our key staff develop and continue to help schools, clubs, County bodies and governing bodies to empower their volunteers and officials to navigate complex protocols such as concussion management. In particular, accessing the network contacts - both domestically and overseas - is of specific interest as we continue to expand.” Nick Somers, CEO, Return2Play


Spotters is the social network dedicated to the grassroots football community. The mobile app allows players to create a football bio & add their stats, and coaches can post about their team and set challenges to players. There’s scope for growing Spotters globally alongside expansion into other spectator sports like rugby and basketball. Beyond all of this, we’re trying to create much more than just an app. We’re building a brand. Our long-term vision is to be the global sports tech brand for the next generation.

Spotters

Nii Cleland [email protected]

07885 984237

spottersfootball.com @spotters_uk

#SpottersFootball

“Our main aim is to build connections with strategic partners that could help us grow Spotters once we exit beta and take the app live." Darrell Coker, Head of Product, Spotters

SPRYT is a two-way marketplace and social network for sports and fitness, helping users find and book their nearest coaches, clients, clubs and facilities as well as connect with potential training partners and teammates. The platform incorporates algorithms based on Machine Learning to encourage interaction and connectivity among users, creating a social framework, ensuring increased user participation and retention. SPRYT aims to remove all informational barriers for users trying to get active and be the preferred platform for finding, connecting and booking in sport/fitness.

SPRYT

Daragh Donohoe


spryt.com

@sprytapp #FindYourFit

"We are delighted to be accepted into the Sport Tech Hub and are excited to learn from the mentors as well as share ideas with the other startups on our collective journey towards future success." Daragh Donohoe, Co-Founder, SPRYT

Immersive, Live-Music Fitness Events in Secret Locations. We've been touted as the 'Secret Cinema Club for Fitness'. Our events' exact location remains a secret until the day before the event, and we currently have a large community of returning customers. Since launching in summer 2017 we have run 5 large-scale consumer events with each selling out. Our website email database has gone from 0 to 2000, and our Instagram following is over 4000. We've spent no money on Marketing, instead using word of mouth for promotion.

Sweat & Sound

Ariana Alexander-Sefre


sweatandsound.com

@sweatandsound #SWEATANDSOUND

“We’re excited for some direction and guidance that can help us develop a scalable strategic plan." Ariana Alexander-Sefre, Co-Founder, Sweat & Sound


UK Wallball is the NGB for wallball in the UK. We have recently dedicated a small spin out team to develop innovative technology to allow more people to get active easily. We aim to mix the worlds of preventative medicine with sport and gamify aspects of physical activity to make them more engaging and behaviour changing. We are currently developing a smart wall that has huge potential for office activity, disability activity and rehab activity. We are looking to gain traction on the work we've done in disability and stroke rehabilitation to date, to help positively impact more people's lives and get previously inactive people active by having simple, wallball fun.

UK Wallball

Daniel Grant


ukwallball.co.uk

@ukwallball #GotAWall

"We're excited to grow our idea from prototype to market through collaboration and mentorship in a way which ultimately gives thousands of people easier access to simple, healthy activity in wallball." Daniel Grant, Director, UK Wallball

We solve the problem of keeping runners of all abilities healthy, fit and injury free whilst training to reach their goals. Every runner has their very own AI personal running coach, constantly adapting to every run and their individual lifestyle. TrainAsONE is powered by advanced Artificial Intelligence and big data analysis of over 10 million kilometers of running, to precisely model each runner and their training needs. An indicator of the system’s success is the weekly tally of personal bests, and the approaching 100 podium places achieved by our users to date. We operate a subscription-based business model, allowing anyone with a mobile phone or sports watch to benefit from our award-winning platform for free, with a paid offering for those who desire our more advanced features - for less than the price of a weekly cup of coffee.

TrainAsONE

Sean Radford


trainasone.com @TrainAsONE #TrainAsONE

“Being part of the programme provides an amazing opportunity to help guide and support TrainAsONE in honing its product-market-fit and reaching out to potential partners. Sharing that experience with other like-minded start-ups to making London the FitTech capital of the world is an added bonus.” Sean Radford, Founder, TrainAsONE


WeGym is approaching personal training from a new angle with a squad at its core. We’re re-inventing the experience for millennials who can’t afford the crazy London average prices and desperately seek an active lifestyle - we’re connecting two likeminded users to train together, unlocking the most powerful asset in fitness - social behavioural change. For 50% of our users we’re the first personal trainer they’ve ever experienced. We’re democratising this once luxury product through technology.

WeGym

Joshua Uwadiae [email protected]

07432 614010

wegym.co.uk @WeGymSquad

#wegymsquad

“We’ve joined Sport Tech Hub because we share a mission to democratise fitness!” Joshua Uwadiae, Founder, WeGym

B2B business with a mission to encourage, inspire and motivate employees to enjoy the benefits of active commuting. Following a data driven approach quantifying CSR and productivity benefits by tracking the carbon emissions and absentee days saved. WellRun supports community building through regular employee challenges against both their fellow employees and other organisations, and expertise and products to equip staff with equipment and ideas.

WellRun Active

Andy Mead


wellrunactive.com @WellRunActive

“To join an inspiring environment helping us to move from our current period of ideation, through proposition validation and into product development. To fully utilise the workshops, mentors, workspace and peer knowledge to provide the education, insight, support structure and connections that can help accelerate us through the start-up curve.” Andy Mead, Founder, WellRun Active

WHERE allows users to share information about what is going on in their local area in exactly the moment they need it – whether it’s a networking event, sports activity or the busiest local bar. This is added to the live heat map, allowing WHERE users to find the right activity to suit their mood and needs. WHERE can be used to find a number of sports and exercise activities and is proving particularly popular amongst those who play rugby. Many use the app to find a local game to join, which then enables them to meet new people who they can enjoy social experiences with, after the match - which can all be done through the app!

WHERE

Charly Harrison


thisiswhere.co

@thisiswhereUK #MakeSocialMediaSocialAgain

“We're keen to start working together to build relationships with a number of great sport organisations and startup's alike to help Londoners become more active and enjoy the physical and mental benefits that come from physical activity.” Charly Harrison, CEO, WHERE


Why We Want to Be Involved “Sport Industry Group want to help the brightest and freshest minds from inside and outside sport bring their new ideas, approaches and technology to the industry. We look forward to working with the start-ups and hope they will in turn challenge the existing standards.” Alex Coulson, Executive Director, Sport Industry Group – Media Partner “My experience with Sport Tech Hub so far has been incredibly valuable. I have met ambitious startup founders and fascinating mentors who come together to create an exciting working environment. I would highly recommend getting involved with the programme and look forward to seeing this grow.” Anthony McGuire – Mentor "Even in the short time we had with each startup, the calibre of the mentors in our group added value to the founders we spoke with. I was impressed with the cohort of startups, and am excited to help them grow over the course of the program." Halsey Huth - Mentor

"Sponge is a PR and marketing agency specialising in sports, technology and travel. We understand how technology can be applied to the world of sport to inspire, encourage participation and change lives for the better. We are delighted to partner with Sport Tech Hub to mentor entrepreneurs on how to bring their sports tech products to market.

“Our home town of London is a thriving hub of technology and innovation, and our aim is to help make the capital the most physically active sporting city in the world." Jane Hansom, Director, Sponge Marketing – Launch Partner

"Crowdcube is thrilled to be partnering with London's new Sport Tech Hub, and its inspiring movement of fresh SportTech startups that want to make London the most active city in the world. We are committed to supporting ambitious founders to grow through more progressive and strategic fundraising strategies. Our team can't wait to help the Sport Tech Hub's first cohort of entrepreneurs to realise the disruptive potential of raising capital through a matrix of funds, drawing on the power of the crowd and early users who want to invest in their product." Luke Lang, Co-Founder, Crowdcube – Launch Partner “The Sport Tech Hub vision aligns with RLC Ventures' ethos of helping uncover and nurture future tech propositions that help shape the society in which we live, in a fun and active way." Reece Chowdry, Founder, RLC Ventures – Launch Partner

"Sport Tech Hub is a much-needed addition to a city that has a rich sporting history. I look forward to supporting the development of startups that are looking to improve the mental & physical well-being of London's residents." Rishi Chowdhury - Mentor

“London & Partners are excited to partner with London’s first Sport Tech Hub. A community and space to help build on London’s reputation as a leading global centre for both sport and innovation. London’s tech sector has developed through a culture of collaboration and sharing ideas and it is our hope this will draw in businesses and investors from around the world. We’re excited about the Hub and the emerging Sports Tech startups that will develop as a result.” Scott Thompson, CCO, London & Partners – Launch Partner

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